Danny

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

You are looking at the first photograph of another multi-planet solar system.

A real image of a real sun-like star, with real planets orbiting it — taken by a telescope on Earth.

We have been alive for 300,000 years as a species. This is the first time we have ever seen another sun's family.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

The first one of these I’ve actually liked. Stephen Hawking is hilarious. “Ha ha ha ha ha ha”

[ℕ𝔼𝕆 𝕀𝕣𝕠𝕟 𝔽𝕚𝕤𝕥🀄 @3LETTEREDKIIDD]

Black Thought - Super Lyrical (Big Pun)
Nas - Verbal Intercourse (Raekwon)
Inspectah Deck - Above The Clouds (Gang Starr)
Rakim - Hoodlum (Mobb Deep)
R.A. The Rugged Man - Uncommon Valor (Jedi Mind Tricks)

HM: AZ - Life's A B**** (Nas), Inspectah Deck – Triumph (Wu Tang Clan)

[caio temer @canalCCore2]

Olha a crise de ansiedade do astronauta na reentrada, sabendo que a cápsula tá a 2800 graus por fora.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Triplets but one has already established himself as a leader

[una ✨ @luna_aireirl]

Beautiful Craftsmanship🧵🪡

[Michael Antonelli @BullandBaird]

Imagine the math required to make this guess and aim 4 people at a point in space

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Danny @DanAzdi]

TERMINATOR MEETS OFFICE #terminator #office https://t.co/nb3dj1Wn7e via @YouTube

[J. Cole @JColeNC]

Aight im currently in Silver Springs, MD. If there’s anybody in the area that wants to ride with me in the Civic while we listen to the album let me know. I got new speakers for this. Please be in the vacinity of silver springs, ima come pick you up with ib, then we can go scoop 1 more person, then we press play.

First 2 people I pick up will listen to disc 29 with us. Next 2 people will listen to disc 39. Don’t send your address until I reply to you and follow you, then you can DM. Lemme know

[Stuttering Craig (Official) @StutteringCraig]

THIS. This is the reason AI exists 🤣🤣🤣
https://t.co/BsJkN2uEGC

[Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) @SpecialSitsNews]

Will Smith eating spaghetti is the true test of AI $msft $goog $meta $nvda

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

I have the screenplay! Which we developed w Francis Coppola in and around 1997-1998 and its a Gothic Western!

[Priyanka Lakhara @codewithpri]

IT’S WILD THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SAVE SOMETHING AS A PDF IS TO LIE TO YOUR COMPUTER THAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO PRINT IT 😭😭😭

[Chess Feed @chess_feed]

Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer | Princeton, USA (1933)

#chess #chessfeed